How long does a bee live?

The life span of ordinary bees is about fifty or sixty days, and that of queen bees is about three to five years.

The life span of worker bees is about 3 months in winter, 1.5 months in summer, and the shortest honey gathering period is 28 days.

The life span of the male peak is about 3 months, but when the queen bees mate and the bees don't need the male peak, the worker bees will chase the male peak and starve it to death.

The queen bee can also be called the queen bee. The life span of a queen bee can be as long as 3 to 5 years. Because the reproduction rate of the old queen bee is gradually decreasing, it is often eliminated manually in the beekeeping industry. The drone can only live for a few months, and the average life span of worker bees (honey picking season) is only about 45 days.

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queen bee

The queen bee's social division of labor is to lay eggs full-time, shouldering the social responsibility of reproducing offspring. Its body is very strong, potbellied, twice the weight of a worker bee, and it has lost the slimness of its "female" figure.

During the spawning period, the queen bee feeds the worker bees with royal jelly every day to promote rapid metabolism and maintain strong spawning ability. According to expert statistics, the queen bee of China bees can lay 700 to 800 eggs in 1 day, but the most is 1 times higher than this, that is, the queen bee of Italian bees has 1500 to 2000 eggs. From the point of view of weight, the average egg laid every day is almost twice its own weight.

Xiong Feng

Just mated with Feng Wang. Xiong Feng is a male "citizen" in a bee colony developed from unfertilized eggs. He lives a unearned life every day, and his only function is to mate with the queen bee.

However, when Xiong Feng plays this role, he will give his precious life. From this perspective, Xiong Feng has to fulfill the responsibility of social division of labor at the cost of his life. This should start from the whole process of fulfilling responsibilities. Every mating season, sexually mature male summits automatically gather somewhere to fly in the air, with the aim of attracting the queen bee.

As soon as the queen appeared, all the male peaks ran away. After some competition, only one finally got the right to mate. Whoever is the biggest and strongest is the final winner. The whole process of mating with the queen bee is in the air. Once the mating was over, Xiong Feng died immediately because his reproductive organs were pulled down.

worker (bee)

The social division of labor is the most and the task is the heaviest. It can be said that except for the respective tasks of the queen bee and the male peak, other work in the bee colony is undertaken by the worker bees. Worker bees are female organ hypoplasia, but many of their structures are specialized to meet the needs of work. For example, the wind bag in their foregut is specialized into a honey sac for storing nectar.

To brew 1 kg honey, worker bees need to collect 10 kg nectar. It takes a total of 320 thousand kilometers to fly back and forth, about 8 times around the earth. Worker bees begin to work as soon as they are born, and the division of labor changes with age.

Under normal circumstances, when worker bees 1~3 days old, they are responsible for keeping the eggs warm and cleaning the spawning room; At the age of 3~6 days, it is switched to feeding large larvae to regulate pollen and honey; 6~ 12 days old changed to secrete royal jelly and feed larvae and queen bees; 12~ 18 years old, changed to secrete wax to make spleen and clean the hive; /kloc-after 0/8 days old, its task is to collect nectar, water, pollen, propolis and defend the nest door [2]

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